Public collection via the Cleveland Museum of Art
AT-00011463Young Man Leaning Forward with Outstretched Arms (Study for Soldiers Distributing Bread to the Poor)
by Isidore Pils
About the Artwork
This unfinished sketch is a study for Isidore Pils's painting Soldiers Distributing Bread to the Poor, which was inspired by an actual scene he witnessed in the center of Paris. Here the artist focused his attention on the youth's upper body and left the legs lightly sketched in, indicating that he must have executed the sketch after he had already worked out the larger composition (where the legs are obscured by a low wall).
Inscriptions
by artist, lower left, in red chalk: Victor Boissé / [DF?]D [crossed out]; passage St Maur no 4 / chez M Morel. [underlined twice]; upper right, in brown ink: B2. No 9- 28; lower center, in red chalk: [No?] 42; verso of primary? support, upper left, in ink?: 666 [underlined]
Provenance
Estate of the artist (Lugt 2030, lower right, in purple ink); [Hôtel Drouot, Paris (20 March 1876), 32, no. 297]. [Galerie Jacques Fischer-Chantal Kiener, Paris]. [Shepherd Gallery, New York]; purchased in 1977.
Exhibition history
French Master Drawings from the Collection of Muriel Butkin. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 26-October 28, 2001); Dahesh Museum of Art (February 19-May 18, 2002).
Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Isidore Pils (French, 1813/15–1875)
- Date
- c. 1851
- Medium
- oil, brown oil wash or ink wash, and black crayon
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 33.8 x 26.9 cm (13 5/16 x 10 9/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- Drawing
- Department
- Drawings
- Credit line
- Bequest of Muriel Butkin
- Accession no.
- 2008.361
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